On 1 February 2010 06:33, Jean Levins <levins65@shaw.ca> wrote to Marilyn King: > > > The names Janet, Jane and Jessie are often used interchangeably in > Scotland. > > Have you checked the IGI for a Batch Number and Source Call Number? If > so you can order a copy of the Parish Record from your local Family History > Centre. > > Certificates are not available until 1855 in Scotland. > ___________________________________________ Hi Jean & Marilyn I did quite a bit of research into these names a few years back. There is a certain amount of confusion in the Scottish records [would you believe] but the general consensus of various sources appears to be: a] Janet was originally derived from Jane [and hence Jean] as a sort of diminutive. Once Janet started being used as a given name, the two names gained equal status as variants of each other. b] Jessie and Janet are synonyms and used fully interchangeably in Scotland. c] Jessie can be used as a pet name for Jane occasionally and, less often, they can be found as true synonyms. There is a suggestion in some sources that Jessie was a sort of extension of Jean or the pet name Jeanie. This suggests that Jessie became a synonym for Janet VIA Jean/Jane. Unfortunately the origins of these links are not documented so today's usage and the records of people such as your Janet/Jane GORDON are all we have to go on. Marilyn: If the dates are consistent and the places of the births of the children in the OPRs match, I would say you have a 95% certainty. Regarding the copies of the Parish Records where the residence of the children can be found, I guess you know that, if you can't get to a Family History Centre with access to the films, you can always get copies from Scotland's People at a very reasonable cost. [No, I don't get commission!] -- Best wishes Ray ********************************************************** >From Ray Hennessy Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP **********************************************************

A few years ago I had a neighbor recently arrived from Scotland, Glasgow area I believe, with a very broad accent which the "Canadian" English all around her failed to dilute. She pronounced my name which is spelled "Keith" as "Kayth" I wondered if that was the effect of the reversal of the "ei" from the normal "ie" in English. She pronounced "Jean" as "Jane" and when I hear the discussion repeated every year of the equivalence of Jean and Jane it seems hardly surprising if that is the way they are pronounced in Scotland. M Keith Abel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Hennessy" <ray7033@googlemail.com> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Janet /Jane Gordon > On 1 February 2010 06:33, Jean Levins <levins65@shaw.ca> wrote to Marilyn > King: > >> >> > The names Janet, Jane and Jessie are often used interchangeably in >> Scotland. >> > Have you checked the IGI for a Batch Number and Source Call Number? If >> so you can order a copy of the Parish Record from your local Family >> History >> Centre. >> > Certificates are not available until 1855 in Scotland. >> > ___________________________________________ > > Hi Jean & Marilyn > > I did quite a bit of research into these names a few years back. There is > a > certain amount of confusion in the Scottish records [would you believe] > but > the general consensus of various sources appears to be: > > a] Janet was originally derived from Jane [and hence Jean] as a sort of > diminutive. Once Janet started being used as a given name, the two names > gained equal status as variants of each other. > > b] Jessie and Janet are synonyms and used fully interchangeably in > Scotland. > > c] Jessie can be used as a pet name for Jane occasionally and, less often, > they can be found as true synonyms. There is a suggestion in some sources > that Jessie was a sort of extension of Jean or the pet name Jeanie. This > suggests that Jessie became a synonym for Janet VIA Jean/Jane. > > Unfortunately the origins of these links are not documented so today's > usage > and the records of people such as your Janet/Jane GORDON are all we have > to > go on. > > Marilyn: > > If the dates are consistent and the places of the births of the children > in > the OPRs match, I would say you have a 95% certainty. > > Regarding the copies of the Parish Records where the residence of the > children can be found, I guess you know that, if you can't get to a > Family > History Centre with access to the films, you can always get copies from > Scotland's People at a very reasonable cost. [No, I don't get commission!] > > -- > Best wishes > > Ray > > ********************************************************** >>From Ray Hennessy > Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net > Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net > Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP > ********************************************************** > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >